Rope-a-Dope
The largest person I met at the Enhanced Games, a mini Olympics for steroid users that was held in Las Vegas this past May, was a six-foot-ten, three-hundred-and-twenty-pound Russian man named Lukas Lakutsin. He...
Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center
In an office park in El Paso, Texas, across the street from the Nuevo Amanecer Church, is a one-story white stucco building with a scuffed metal door. A small sign decorated with a drawing...
Donald Trump’s Needless War with Iran Is His Biggest Economic Blunder
As far as President Donald Trump is concerned, the summer fun is already over. He outraged traditionalists by staging a U.F.C. fight night at the White House for his eightieth birthday, celebrated the two-hundred-and-fiftieth...
The Remaking of Lindsey Graham
On July 13, 2src15, my Washington Post colleague Michael Gerson and I interviewed Senator Lindsey Graham about his long-shot and, as it turned out, not terribly long-lasting Presidential campaign. The day before, on CNN,...
Shooting Near Toronto Street Festival Kills 2 People, Wounds 4
TORONTO (AP) — A shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two men and wounded four other people Saturday evening, police said, adding that what initially prompted an active-shooter warning was an exchange of...
U.S. Attacks Iran Over Ship Being Hit In Strait Of Hormuz; Tehran Lashes Out Again At Gulf Arab States
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States attacked Iran on Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew...
Bull Gores Runner In The Face During Spain’s San Fermin Bull Run Festival
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — A runner was gored in the face and many more were fortunate to not be seriously injured during a chaotic bull run at Spain’s San Fermin festival on Saturday.The six...
An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like
The list of tactics the Trump White House has used against its perceived enemies is nasty and brutish but certainly not short. It includes indicting them (James Comey, John Bolton), investigating them (Jerome Powell,...
The Art of Ana Mendieta Comes Into Focus at the Tate Modern
In Rome, however, Mendieta had space and light, and—with a studio perched over the academy’s lovely, pine-filled gardens atop the Janiculum Hill—immediate access to the natural world. She could also enjoy new urban pleasures:...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Millions of deaths?It’s millions of deaths.Earlier, I asked you to be a psychiatrist. Now I’m asking you to be a political analyst—and both things are asking a lot. Who will be held accountable by...